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I do not know any programming languages at all. I will self teach myself and need to know the best place to do so where I can learn from a most basic level. … I don't have a lot of time right now in my life (with four kids) to go back that far. If I were going to school, that would be different. Any advice you could give is most welcomed. …

Awhile back I posted a question about a kid I know and his dilemma about getting a college degree. … I am guessing that these classes won't teach programming concepts like a CS 101 course or something would but probably more how to build programs out with a specific toolset. …

It's more of a long-term strategy, but you could teach kids in poverty or in a developing country. … If not as a full-time job, then teach programming for an after-school program at a boys/girls club in a poor neighborhood, or simply mentor at-risk kids. …

Copied from stack overflow due to feedback So I want to teach someone how to do dynamic memory allocation using the block padding model. … I'm going to be working on a project with a much younger high school kid with basic programming knowledge in C++ and Java (based on what he claims, anyway). …

BASIC's GOTO is a great way to teach the way of thinking in assembly language. … BASIC can turn young kids away from programming, because to write a simple fun program, all you could do is keep copy-typing a very, very long program printed on a magazine, whereas with LOGO a one-liner …

Silly user, Trix are for kids, not advanced concepts like OO programming and design. … Introduce kids to visual programming languages that teach them basic concepts while keeping things fun and interesting. Scratch looks like a promising project. …

Basic or Logo or Squeak (et.al.), if they ever want to be able to understand how to teach small kids some computer literacy. … Fortran, Cobol and Lisp, if they want to understand the history of programming languages, and what the actual problems are that modern practices fix. …

The thing is it is not possible to teach to kids in a short period of time programming. … We are the first country to implement OLPC program; http://laptop.org/en/ …

First teach them how to write code. … If it's the only thing that gets these kids interested in programming, and they may not attend or be interested if you're teaching anything else (not even the old stand-bys like game programming), then …

That’s because this kind or programming isn’t optimized for manual tweaking. It’s optimized to reflect the training data. You fix it with better data. … If you don’t want your kids to swear, don’t swear in front of your kids. Or you can teach it what swearing is and when it’s inappropriate. It still won’t show up as a feature flag. …

Unless your parents have expressed a clear, strong desire to learn programming, I recommend against trying to teach them. … Something that I saw recently was a presentation on a small DSL called PIE to allow kids to code simple games. The language was super simple, and when run it produced something that felt "real". …

Teaching high school kids Labview and Lego NXT I was a mentor for the FIRST Robotics for a year and had to guide the kids in programming the robot in NI Labview. … Frankly, the programming skill required was much above the level of a high school kid. …

What you're doing now is great, but if you want to incredibly speed up your progress you can do two additional things: 1) "Teach" - A simple way to do this is to start a blog, and attempt to contribute … In that, pick a class that you've never seen/used before, and make a small program that uses it. …

What you can do is teach kid how to use a computer or how o program, but again, they need a computer to continue learning, and most kids tend to learn alone. …

University students would have a very different set of learning requirements to high school kids. … and lead the students into the concepts of non-GUI based programming. …